When Law burst in he could barely see Nami under the mass of bodies. He could see hands roaming over her chest and hear choking noises as a pirate by her head wrapped his hands around her throat. She was shirtless and the only scrap of fabric covering her lower body was a dirty pair of panties.
While he would ordinarily love to see Nami in only her panties, there was nothing sexy about the scene before him. Without waiting he cast his room and began the process of immobilizing every pirate in the room. Rage bubbled through him as he pulled them off of her, a sick feeling settling in his stomach as he realized he was too late to save her.
Approaching the one who had been choking Nami, he growled as he bent down to make himself perfectly clear.
"Give me your fucking shirt or I'll cut it off your body" Law hissed, the man radiating a dark aura that would even make Luffy think twice about messing with him.
The pirate wordlessly did as he asked, fear apparent in his eyes. Law stood up and turned around, using his ability to free Nami from her ropes. She sat up and curled in around herself, hiding herself from him as he took the pirate's shirt and gently tugged it over her head.
He would have given her his, but seeing as it was currently being used to bandage her back it wasn't a possibility. He'd have to find her something else to wear as soon as they got out of there.
He didn't bother asking if she was okay. Instead, a murderous look still in his eyes, he turned back to the pirates in the room and gave a sadistic smirk.
"Amputate" he commanded and he heard screams of shock and horror as the pirates realized that their 'man parts' had mysteriously disappeared.
"Can you walk?" He asked Nami as he hesitantly helped her off the table, not wanting to touch her if she was still traumatized. She managed to nod but she still put a hand on his shoulder to help support her.
"Lets get out of here" he said, unsheathing his sword in preparation for more attacks.
While he was horrified to take in Nami's full state, a part of him was relieved that she was at least alive. Somehow in the few days they had been stuck together, he had become quite attached to her. Before she was merely a curiosity, someone that piked his interest, but now that he understood her a bit better he realized something.
He wanted her. Not sexually, although it was difficult to be sexually attracted to someone when they were covered in dirt and blood and hanging onto life. But he wanted her. He had written her off at first as someone weak, sure he respected her cartography skills but she wasn't a critical asset to him.
Things have changed since then to say the least. He had watched her go through what would break even some of the strongest men he knew. He listened to her story and realized that while she may not have the muscle mass of some of her crew members, she was strong. He was a fool to think that Luffy would choose anyone less than that for his crew, but appearances can be deceiving. She had spent her whole life fighting, and she really made him think about strength. Before he thought of strength as someone strong of mind and body, he never expected someone who ran away from the thought of battle like her to gain so much respect from him.
Pausing occasionally to take care of an enemy, the pair made their way out of the base and through a forest area to the shore.
Law surveyed the boats docked there, most of them were too large for just he and Nami to sail by themselves. But there was a small sailboat that caught his eye, he could only hope that Nami was well enough to help navigate them out into the sea.
He lifted the woman into the boat and without saying a word she began adjusting the sails. He sat and pushed them off from shore, hoping they could get far enough away before their pursuit caught up with them.
"What happened?" Nami asked him, the first thing she had spoken since he found her.
At first Law thought she was referring to the multiple cuts all over his body that Doflamingo had inflicted during his torture session, but when he followed her finger he realized she was pointing to the large stab wound in his shoulder.
"I'll tell you about it later" he promised as they continued away from the island. They both watched the shoreline disappear before turned to each other once again.
"Do you have any idea where we are?" Law asked, hoping the navigator knew something he didn't.
She shook her head ruefully as she surveyed the horizon
"All we can really do is keep sailing until we hit an island and hope it has civilization there" she said, shielding her eyes from the sun. Law hummed in agreement. They needed clothing, food, medicine and a warm bed.
He really took a moment to survey her as she looked out at the open sea, a ghost of a smile on her face.
Her face had been bruised, her neck and the part of her shoulders he could see were bruised. He knew she had the whip markings on her back and more bruising on her torso. Her wrists were bloody and raw and on one of them she still had the cuts marking her a traitor. He knew that he himself had gotten off lightly, but he was sure she would be alright under his care.
Luffy had spent the past hour repeatedly banging on the door and yelling. The other two crews tiredly lay around the room, still tied up but unable to get any rest due to the rubber man's yelling.
"LET US OUT!"
Bang bang bang
"I'LL GIVE YOU MEAT IF YOU LET US OUT"
Bang bang bang. An eye roll from Sanji.
"I'M GONNA KICK YOUR BUTT!"
Bang bang bang
"I'M HUNGRY! GIVE ME SOMETHING TO EAT!"
Bang bang ba-
The door slammed open, an extremely irritated member of Doflamingo's crew on the other side.
"WILL YOU SHUT UP!" He yelled. Luffy sat criss cross on the floor, fiddling with his sea stone handcuffs in front of him.
"Give me meat!" Luffy demanded. The pirate just rubbed his temples
"You are giving us all a migraine. Shut up!" He pleaded
"You are preaching to the choir" Zoro mumbled from where he was attempting to sleep.
With that the door shut and locked again.
"Man! If Nami was here she could get us out of these handcuffs!" Luffy complained loudly, flopping onto his back. With that statement Robin's head perked up, her mouth slowly turning into a grin as she began developing a plan.
"99 bottles of sake on the wall, 99 bottles of sake!" Luffy began singing, causing a unanimous groan from everyone in the room.
Nami took a good look at Law as he sat across from her. The man didn't seem to be very hurt aside from the stab wound to his shoulder. She had never been more grateful in her life than when he had burst in to save her. She had missed the sea, she hadn't even realized how much until they saw it again.
She wrinkled her nose at the smell of the shirt she wore, but she would rather wear this than nothing. She only hoped whatever island they washed up on had a town or something. Even just a shower. She was starting to smell and Law wasn't too far behind judging by the whiff she kept getting from him.
He was sitting across from her in the little sailboat they had commandeered, ragged pants frayed and torn. He was shirtless which really gave Nami a good opportunity to look at all of his tattoos. There was no doubt he was dark, rugged and handsome. He was in need of a shower and a shave but even in this state she admired his strength. He pretended to be the bad guy, but as she had seen over the past few days he had a bigger heart than he let on.
"What do you think our crews are doing?" Nami wondered aloud.
"Trying to find us I hope" was Law's dry retort. Nami gave him a withering glare.
"It's gonna take months to calm Luffy down enough to get back to normal after we find them" Nami says. Law looked at her out of the corner of his eye
"What makes you say that?"
"Well Luffy promised Genzo he wouldn't ever let me lose my smile. Now every time I'm sad he spends the next few days doing everything in his power to make me smile, I guess he feels like he has to make it up to me. I try to explain to him that people can't be happy all the time, but he just kind of gives me that blank stare he gets when you try to talk about something intellectual with him."
Law let out a low chuckle at that. The pair rested in a comfortable silence until Nami yelled out.
"Land!" She said, pointing off into the distance where there was indeed the faint outline of an island.
"Oh my gosh I cannot wait to clean up. And eat!" She said, dreaming about all the foods she wanted to eat. Almost as if on cue, Law's stomach growled. He looked embarrassed as she laughed
"Did you not eat anything they gave you?" She asked
"I hate bread" Law mumbled to himself. This caused the redhead to laugh, Law looked at her curiously. That was the second time she had burst into laughter about this particular subject.
"Why do you find that so funny?" He inquired as she woman slowed down her giggles.
"Bepo told me you'd rather starve to death than eat bread. I thought he was exaggerating but he really wasn't!" She said, breaking out into another peal of laughter.
Law was going to have a talk with his navigator when they were reunited. All the same, he was glad he had been there to keep Nami's spirits up.
"What do we need to do to dock this ship?" He asked, trying to change the subject.
"Your a pirate and you don't know how to dock a ship?" She said incredulously
"If this were a submarine I could do it no problem. I don't have as much experience with sailboats" he grumbled. Nami only shrugged as she instructed him on what to do. Together the pair worked at docking the ship, hoping this island would be their salvation.